Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

The last Christian died on a cross.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

The noble soul reveres itself

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?